cob-coals

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• coals

  To be hauled over the coals, is to be brought to strict account. ...

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• Cob

  ·noun A young herring. II. Cob ·noun Clay mixed with straw. III. Cob ·noun The top or head of anyt...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• cob

  1) A Spanish dollar. 2) or cobbing A punishment used by the seamen for petty offences, or irregula...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cob

  1) a blow ; likewise to throw. Derb. Also a basket of wicker to carry on the arm ; a seed-cob, or se...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• cob

  A young herring. Also, a sea-gull. Also, a sort of short break-water so called in our early statutes...

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• Sea cob

  ·- The black-backed gull. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• cob-ibon

  an andiron. S. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• cob-irons

  brand-irons. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• cob-joe

  a nut at the end of a string. Derb. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• cob-loaf

  a crusty, deformed loaf. North. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• cob-nut

  a game, which consists in pitching at a row of nuts piled up in heaps of four, that is, three at bot...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• herring-cob

  A young herring. ...

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• sacks of coals

  The seaman's name for the black Magellanic clouds, or patches of deep blue sky in the milky-way near...

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• cob-web morning

  a misty morning. Norf. ...

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• devil-on-the-coals

  n. a Bushman's name fora small and quickly-baked damper. 1862. Rev. A. Polehampton, `Kangaroo Land...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris